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• Classical mechanics
  ...mathematical physics begun by [[Isaac Newton]] and many contemporary 17th century workers, building upon the earlier [[astronomical]] theories of [[Johannes
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• Cartoon
  ...umorous]] illustrations in magazines and newspapers, and in the early 20th century and onward it referred to comic strips and [[animated]] [[films]].
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• Cult of Personality
  ...itive image like never before. It was from these circumstances in the 20th century that the best-known personality cults arose. Often these cults are a form o ...for personality cults that arose in [[totalitarian]] societies of the 20th century, such as those of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Adolf Hitler]
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• Churning
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ...idulated acidulated] or bacteriologically soured cream. Well into the 19th century butter was still made from cream that had been allowed to stand and sour na
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• Minority
  *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_Century 15th century] ...of civil rights and collective rights which gained prominence in the 20th century. Members of minority groups are prone to [[different]] treatment in the cou
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• Exorcism
  ...til the later half of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th century] where the public saw a sharp rise due to the [[media]] [[attention]] exorc
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• Desecration
  Even in the late 20th and 21st century, desecrations are still taking place in some parts of the world, notably in
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• Fossil
  ...ki/Radiometric_dating radiometric dating] [[techniques]] in the early 20th century allowed geologists to determine the numerical or "absolute" age of the vari
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• Desert
  ...the [[word]] desert can cause [[confusion]]. In English prior to the 20th century, desert was often used in the sense of "unpopulated area", without specifi *Date: [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Century 13th century]
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• Wedding
  *before [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Century 12th century] ...oom's wedding band not appearing in the United States until the early 20th Century.
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• Anatomy
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century] ...human bodies) to technologically complex techniques developed in the 20th century including X-ray, ultrasound, and MRI.
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• Parapsychology
  ...g demonstrated conclusive [[evidence]] of psychic abilities in more than a century of [[research]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology] ...were later founded in the U.S. and in many European countries. In the 20th century research into parapsychology was also conducted at some [[universities]], n
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• Viking
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th Century] ...n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widsith Widsith]'', which probably dates from the 9th century. In Old English, and in the history of the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen wr
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• Formal Sciences
  ...] in the 5th century BC, and Greece between the 4th century BC and the 1st century BC. The formally sophisticated treatment of modern logic descends from the ...rted the earliest study of [[probability theory]] (statistics) in the 17th century.
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• Forgery
  ...their own prints by signing them "AD", making them forgeries. In the 20th century the art market made forgeries highly profitable. There are widespread forge
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• Phoenix
  ...ye from conch shells. A late antique etymology offered by the 6th- and 7th-century CE archbishop [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville Isidore of ...f the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B Linear B] script in the 20th century, the original Greek φοῖνιξ was decisively shown to be derived from [
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• Tsunami
  ...t the [[understanding]] of a tsunami's nature remained slim until the 20th century and much remains unknown. Major areas of current research include trying to
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• Duel
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th Century] ...l United States] until it fell out of favor in Eastern America in the 18th century. It was retained however in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Old
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• Shield
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_century before 12th Century] ...as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targe targe]), and as late as the 19th century, some non-industrialized peoples employed them (such as [https://en.wikiped
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• Transference
  *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_century 20th Century]
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